bipartisan

 

Throughout the 2008 election campaign and ever since the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, I have heard politicians, pundits and prognosticators talk about the need for a “bipartisan” government approach to solve the problems facing the U.S.

Now I just need to know what that means, if it ever existed and whether it really represents a good thing.

 
 

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon Wood's idea of citizenship is one of equality. And the Brown University history professor says today’s partisanship government isn’t any worse than it was in the 1790s. What do you think?